Bianca Beetson

She completed her Honours in 1998 and was awarded a Doctorate of visual arts at Griffith University in 2018.

[1] She established herself as an artist for contemporary Australian aboriginal art and lives and works in Brisbane.

Her work also reflects on her relationship to skin and she interprets body paint designs and scarification marks in a contemporary manner.

[2] In 2013, she was commissioned by the Brisbane Botanic Gardens to install her sculpture, the Feast of the Bon-yi, in bronze and corten steel there on Mount Coot-tha.

The nut itself symbolises a sacred object, it provides nourishment, rebirth and growth and is the reason why people travelled from so far and wide.